Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they reach a fast-flowing stream with a gravel bottom, the mated pairs dig a shallow nest by moving the stones with their suckers. Then male and female attach themselves side by side to a large stone. As soon as the eggs are fertilized, the adult lampreys...
...Sale. In Effingham, Ill., John Trett couldn't understand why money kept disappearing from his café cash register; finally dismantled the machine, uncovered a tidy mouse nest constructed of $1 and $5 bills...
Birds in Their Little Nests. After the last of many temperamental disagreements with Sullivan, Gilbert retired to the country, where he became a somewhat eccentric justice of the peace. "Had you been a gentleman," he said to a chauffeur whom he had just fined ?5 for reckless driving, "I should have fined you ten." Gilbert himself bought an American Locomobile-in which he promptly ran over a bicycling curate and sent his own wife flying into a hedge. "She looked like a large and quite unaccountable bird's nest," he mused...
...story, like a maddening nest of Chinese boxes, is finally fished out of a flashback, inside another flashback, inside still another flashback. The reason Laraine is such a thoroughly.horrible young woman: she suffered a disappointment about a gold locket when she was a little girl...
Temperatures skidded to 25° below at Lethbridge, 23° below at Medicine Hat, 34° below at Penhold, Alberta. Snow fell 5 ft. deep in eastern British Columbia. At Nelson, B.C., plows were trapped in towering drifts. Some 15,000 residents of the Crow's Nest Pass area in the Rockies were isolated for days when snow drifted 12 ft. deep. Coal mines had to shut down. Towns ran short of coal and some were almost out of food...